skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to get hung up on technical details, note that GP didn't ask whether it's less sketchy than average, just whether it's less sketchy.

Finding concrete proof or examples is obviously hard in this subject matter (how are you going to prove something as abstract as sketchiness), but here's one observation: predatory conferences mostly only exist outside the West. To be even more concrete, two of the most infamous predatory publishers (WASET and OMICS) are based in Turkey and India respectively. You generally won't find something nearly as sketchy in the West.
So, if hypothetically you could guarantee and prove somehow that a company would never pay dividends even with a new board, then there would no longer be a reason for the stock price to move, right? People are basically betting on the fact that a company that doesn't pay dividends will change their mind at some point?
I’m curious if my phone has been compromised. The amount of spam calls and texts I get have gone through the roof. Many texts are filled with odd characters or appear to be normal HTTP links but I’m guessing they are trying to exploit something.

Does restarting help? I am hesitant to do a clean install after receiving a weird text but I usually delete the text and restart my phone.

Even my work phone is starting to get spam calls and texts and I haven’t even given the number to more than 5 people.
Expedia is based in Seattle, London and India. As far as I know, they don't pay SV FAANG salaries.
I find that rarely when a side has an “opposing side” that either side is reasonable

In this case, “misconduct happens” is not opposite to “it never happens” and I do not find the comments to echo the former sentiment as much as “Academia has become so ripe with either outright malice, or an inability to catch earnest mistakes, that virtually no research can be trusted.”

> No one here is trying to argue that it happens all the time or more often than not, I'm wondering if that's what you think we're reading.

No one is indeed arguing that, but what many, including me, are arguing is that nothing can really be trusted any more because it's a coinflip whether data is even reproducible.
> This article is completely hypocritical to be coming from Tom Friedman. He has been one of the primary cheerleaders for globalism which has been a major driver of corporations gaining more favor from the government.

If that's so, doesn't the defection to an opposing camp make his message even here more credible?
We're investing a lot in PWA is our safe harbor bet against market domination from Google Play and Apple Store.
How does one define rich though? This is always the rub. I mean, if you look at the performance of the stock market over the past decade and also all the ppl getting rich with GME and Tesla options on WallStreetBets, it's hardly only the 1% who are benefiting. Maybe the top 20% or more. I think it is more like high-IQ people who are getting rich, and it is people who have low/average IQs, who have low-paying jobs and without nice tech jobs or stock portfolios, who are falling behind .So that is probably 60-70% of the country.
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Study: Children who use touchscreens more easily distracted than peers
Ask HN: Questions to ask a company to know you don't want to work there?
I'm looking for all around stuff, tech questions, process, business etc.

I'll go first:
When interviewing perspective employees, does the entire team participate in the interview process and make a hire / no hire decision as a team?
>why do people say it is good for the stock price when a company is doing well

In a normal market, based on fundamentals, you can say a stock is a good price based on a few key factors like EPS and P/E [0]

But in our current la la land of free money and infinite liquidity, things are basically worth whatever the hedge funds say they are.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price-earningsratio.asp
Yes, HDD's should probably be considered medium-term storage. Tapes seem a little more robust, but it seems like M Disc, estimated around 1,000 years, take the crown. Unfortunately 100GB is the limit, so very large files will be difficult.
Even in the face of such evidence, it often turns out that when the other side tells it's story it's more reasonable than that and there are explanations.
Surprisingly the only laptop I’ve ever had work reasonably well on Linux was an AMD based one (T495s).
He's implying, correctly, that Newsweek is not a trustworthy or even-handed source, and that the ownership now is very likely to push stories in directions by leaving out information, or emphasizing red herrings, in order to drive an agenda.
One factor is people not wanting to do work for others or to force others to do work for them. What sometimes works to defuse that is to make an attempt at progress and then ask why that is not quite right instead of asking how to move forward as soon as ambiguity or some kind of blockage comes up.
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That's true as individuals I do not believe we can. Only as a group and with the help of tools, which is what semweb tried to achieve. We found out the tools weren't the most practical and learned a lot. Now we need the Tensorflow of those approaches, something easy to use not platform centric and with a low barrier of entry.
OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei’s next company is literally called Nothing
She wasn't fired for what she'd posted on those sites, though. She was fired for simply having an account.
Are there researchers out there using bot accounts to prospectively experiment with social media researchers?
Yes it is correct. There’s no loophole. I borrow a share and sell it to someone. Someone else borrows that share and sells it to someone. Same share, borrowed twice and sold twice. As long as each short seller maintains the equity requirement, there’s no issue.

What I am unclear on is who takes the counter party risk in the event the short seller cannot make margin calls and goes bust. The exchange I assume? Who insures the exchange if something like this happens where $10 billion is created overnight at the expense of short sellers?
How does this differ from robust lines of question in political reporting?
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> There's no difference asking for Facebook or Instagram or Twitter.

LinkedIn is a professional networking - and resume/CV hosting site. Facebook and Instgram are for friends, family, hobbies, and the like. They're worlds apart and it's intellectually dishonest of you to equate them.

> Would you hire a photographer without seeing their Instagram?

No, I wouldn't. Instagram isn't Flickr, deviantArt, nor their professional portfolio.
Its a catch all term abuse. We have terms for all those things US call socialism.

Communism, stalinims, totalitarianism.

Socialism suppose encapsulate ideas where you invest into people (social)

so·cial relating to society or its organization.

Investing into ideas that protect and support the very fabric of society, families, healthcare, education, consumer protection - anything that makes it easier for people to prosper and not be abused. It makes people healthy, educated and protected and they will prosper thus creating more wealth.

There was an article here recently that growing up in stable home make you far more successful (avg 75k per year earnings). Its common sense. There will be no next apple created in tent cities of LA.
Things will only get real once HN gets people fired.

You cannot delete past HN comments.
Vintage Lego Papercraft
> eg. amalgamate with the heat sink

I guess that would make changing the heat sink an issue but as long as you don't do that shouldn't amalgated metal give just as good thermal conductivity overall?
Wasn't FirefoxOS basically based on the idea of PWA like apps?
The crucial side-effect of most productivity-increasing inventions is marginalization of most of the work force (barring the few lucky ones - the SV engineers in the case of XXI century), destruction of communities and concentration of wealth and power in fewer hands. The luddites were definitely onto something. Wendell Bell explored these ideas in detail in his writing, if anyone is interested in learning more.
Huh, TIL!
& CSS
iOS 14.4 patches 3 security flaws that ‘may have been actively exploited’
I have a few of their boards and my experience with them could have been a lot better.

Their documentation is rather poor. Parameters to function/constructors are often left out, leaving you to go through the source to figure out how stuff works.

The standard modules can have different functions/variables between different boards. It makes sense since some boards have capabilities others don't. However there is no documentation on this.

Finally, in my opinion, some of the adafruit_* libraries are not well designed. There are many "kitchen sink" libraries that try to do everything. I also noticed that while they do appear to use pylint to enforce good standards, almost all source files have at least one check disabled...
yeah - It just feels like every other internet craze. Or maybe I'm just salty I was too slow on the uptake ? :-P
Pseudonyms and team moderation work pretty well, along with the ability to block abusive users. The HN voting system is also helpful.
> The problem is that it's bad. I say this as someone who comes from the outside, and isn't an expert ("barely competent" in HTML/CSS is probably accurate). Basic layout of things in a way that copes with different screen sizes/orientations is a surprisingly black art sometimes. There's a lot of history confusing the issue and three ways of doing each thing.

How can you say this with a "barely competent" level of expertise? I would rather hear a well reasoned argument from someone who knows the ecosystem and its trade-offs.
Absolutely. The limitation to people associated with academic institutions is pretty old fashioned (and also, from another point of view, modern).
ah great, my experience on hacker news has a wiki entry!
BS based on what? I can show you the desk. I did found his bill. It was $30 bucks more.

The price for IKEA piece was materials plus delivery.

The price for that desk was design, delivery and assembly on the spot.
> Just the fact that Biden is called a "socialist" or part of the "radical left" (or even close to the left) by a non negligible portion of Americans tells you all you have to know. America/Biden's socialism is the equivalent of progressive conservatism in Europe.

Observations about the left/right alignment of American politicians are, naturally, made in the context of American politics. It makes little sense to compare Joe Biden's politics to European candidates. He is compared to Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Compared to them (even compared to Clinton and Obama), he is significantly farther left.

Imagine how well the converse of the argument would track for a European. "You know that candidate on the Right who wants to abolish your state-run healthcare system? You can tell that's not a radical position--just look at how many Americans prefer a private system!"
Yeah, 50mm was the traditional full-frame 35mm film "normal" lens but anything from about 35mm focal length to 100mm or so would be pretty conventional. You get wider or longer than that and you're getting into different perspectives than what a human eye would normally see. But, as you say, it's not really a straightforward comparison.
I like the idea of judging our beliefs based on what they do for us, personally-individually, and collectively (which is very political and gets tricky very fast)

also, I like exercising my freedom of belief (a personal individual freedom). I have a right to believe whatever crazy thing I want to; but I have no right to escape the consequences of any false beliefs I might hold.
I think some of the exaggeration has come from people who only use Apple products basically seeing what the cutting edge actually is, e.g. We've historically been the same performance or worse, now our tribe is the fastest - spurred on by much faster benchmarks.

Anyway I look forward to websites slowing down as M1 becomes more popular amongst Devs who shouldn't need anything that fast in the first place (ideally)
> lax immigration enforcement (which led to more competition for the workers and cheaper labor for the companies)

Please explain how you know this. Was there ever any bottom at all for the cost of low-skilled labor?

More people means more workers, generally, I accept that. But more people also means more consumption, generally. And that requires more labor. Surely you don't think that normal population growth implies cheaper labor, right?
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Ah, and there's the difference between the USA and other countries (like Canada or Germany).

In those countries, those forms of security are already factored into the "Operating System" of society.

That was enlightening. Thanks for taking the time and patience to talk with me! :-)
Maybe it has to do with control. Student==likely low impact. Faculty==likely uncontroversial. API==looks like transparency.
When you are in the wrong lane, everybody is going against you?

Has it struck you that maybe the world is actually that way and that they prefer to be that way. Just because it isn't your way doesn't mean that you dismiss the rest of the world.
Cost of labor was around 50% of the material value.
I don't buy the garbage at most furniture stores for the same reason. Real wood isn't that much more expensive and will last. Plenty of it to be found at the likes of goodwill for cheap.
Which news sources do you consider reputable then?
What's wrong with that? If you wanted to investigate, say, the rise of The Beatles - wouldn't you love to have access to the random thoughts of their fans in the 1960s?

Similarly, if you're researching bots and spam and how they manipulate people & markets - this is still useful.
And one might think liberals, putting liberty above order, would be aghast at silencing opponents to maintain order, and yet here we are. Our political theater has gotten pretty weird. The whole thing is looking more and more like unprincipled tribes vying for power.
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Beliefs do not reserve respect, at all. Just people do.

I'll respect you, not your beliefs.

>what IS math?

Relations between proportions. There's no magic.

Also, Science never can't go side by side with superstition. Ever.
> I mean, what are the means of production in companies like CD Project Red?

The means to deploy knowledge.
This ranges from a robust social safety net (healthcare, childcare, housing, food, etc) to as you say laptops and workstations.

> Employees can easily afford them.

For a very specific set of Employees, this is true. For others the outlay for even a derelict hand-me-down laptop is the difference between making this months rent and not.

> Since we've moved beyond the factory-based model of capitalism

The factory isn't making "widgets" anymore, but it's still there and it's making /something/.

> it's become clear that it's not the control of means of production that is the central issue

Owning the means has, is, and will be the central issue until we are post scarcity.
> Your total payoff is also the contribution that other voters pay to you, and they pay to you because you pay to them.

That's too indirect. It's a tragedy of the commons style situation: if nobody votes then everybody is much worse off, but if any one person doesn't vote that barely hurts them individually.

The concrete incentive to vote is social. If you don't vote then people will consider you a freeloader. That changes the equation: while there's still barely any individual election result payoff of your individual vote, there's a social cost of not voting that's higher than the cost of voting, so voting is worth it even for purely selfish reasons.

And that takes it into crony belief territory. You're doing it for social reasons, not just because you think it's correct, but because your social group thinks it's correct.

(That doesn't make it wrong, or bad. It's a useful mechanism.)

> It's not really that different from your money on your bank account if you think about it, only small amount of daily spending gets immediately back to you as "reward" for the decisions you made.

The difference is that coordinating with myself is much easier than coordinating with other people. There's no way to freeload off myself in the long term, but freeloading off other people is a real possibility with all kinds of countermeasures. Social pressure is one such countermeasure.
But I take it that if you were to click on a link in one of those windows, your Slack window now becomes... a Gitlab window.
I am pretty envious. I have worked 10 for the past 6 years. I am probably an idiot for doing so.
I just don't understand what happened to classical RAD from the late 90s early 00s. OK web was out of touch because no one really uses the "standard gui" anymore, even something as simple as a button has different look and behavior on every website.

But mobile app should be prime targets for it, and theming is a well understood concept for it too.

So why do we not have a proper rad tool (drag and drop my button where I want it, see the list of events, double clic onclic to edit code to run on clic event, customize onrender if I want some magic look or draw on a canvas,...).

It has got to be better than this html/js horror show.
Of course they would say that.

And even if that were true, their prospective sales don't depend on the "Western" world only, not to say anything about the fact that equating "the Western world does not buy stuff anymore" with "the world doesn't buy stuff anymore" is peak orientalist (but this being standard corporate communication it does not surprise me).
Switch jobs, but find it first. Do not go out placing your resume, research various companies and choose one that does what you want. But do not quit until you find the new job.

Contact old friends from Uni, tell them you are looking for a great working environment. Make sure you have clearly defined what you consider essential. Also consider what are nice to haves. Your absolute must list cannot be longer than 3 items.

Good luck :-)
steep, but not altogether unlike college. read your contracts folks.
one thing you’re missing is that gbtc investors also get to bet on the spread. this works on sentinment/momentum.

for example, right now the spread is about 4%. it’s been as high as 20%+ and can also go below 0%.

so if there is a lot of institutional momentum to btc, gbtc has the potential to rise faster than btc itself.
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> They're worlds apart and it's intellectually dishonest of you to equate them.

Absolutely not; public webpages are public webpages. What someone chooses to publish, and where, is an important measure of their personality and attitude.
New fund for $40M (where can you get the money?)
New fund for $40M (where can I get the money?)

Elevate Capital Fund announced the launch of its second $40M venture fund. The first venture capital fund launched in 2016 invested $10M in 29 companies. Mainly in startups organized by women, blacks and LGBTQ.

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That's a pretty small forest by American standards but buying up forests or any kind of open land with the intent to spare them from being wrecked by another sprawling exurb is a great thing to do. Similar work has been done by various open space preservation funds and land trusts in California. As a climate strategy it's not really even about the forests, it's about the exurban Americans who are the greatest threat to the global climate.
I actually went to some high end furniture stores and was surprised that a lot of stuff on the floor was still IKEA quality. Maybe a slight step up, but a lot of it wasn’t solid wood. Additionally, a lot of it was a bit too fussy or looked like something my grandparents would like. When I went to IKEA, I was glad to see some simple furniture, as it suits my tastes.
It's intellectual violence which consumes the time of people of good intent by insisting that they do significant labor to support elements and details of an argument that are generally held to be self evident and true. Things like racism are included - for example "the KKK is a terrible organisation that hurt many people"... "have you got personal experience of this?".."how many KKK attacks have there been in Suffolk England this year?".."what percentage of KKK members have participates in racial murders".."are you sure that the murders are all actually terrible - maybe there were reasons - afterall we weren't there"... and so on and so on and so on...
My child has two parents. Why does day care call only me? (2018)
The resilience of mixed seniority engineering teams
> Is it a bug if it never happens? Another way to say it, would you pay money to prevent a problem you don’t have?

Let me rephrase that: Is it a bug if I don't know about it? Another way to say it, would you pay money to prevent a problem you're not (yet) aware of?

Saying the bugs "never happen" is basically saying "I always write bug-free code."

I feel languages that don't have type checking (or where it's sloppy), force developers perform semi-automated testing (i.e. unit tests to catch type issues) when they could have systematic, fully-automated testing (for type issues, at least)
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>and even BCn, can't be compressed much further

S3TC is block compression, so if there is repeating data in images it will compress quite well.
Serious question: what is the definition of "capitalist" in this context?

Also, don't forget that there's more to the economy than manufacturing - what about the service-sector, intangibles, finance, the information sector, creative arts, and so on?
Delphi is still around and they do let you drag and drop a mobile layout and target ios and android. I don't know anyone using it though.
avoidance != evasion
Does this logic apply to software? When someone creates a giant slow insecure spaghetti monster piece of code do you rush out and hire them as a consultant to fix it?

Are they not the last person that should do that job given that they are the only ones that have proven that that they cannot?
I don't think the horseshoe theory works. The critical factor is authoritarianism. Which is a grown-up word for bullying and narcissism.

Authoritarians are invariably toxic damaged people who are full of rage and are looking for a target to make themselves feel better.

Sometimes they end up on the left. Sometimes they end up on the right. Sometimes they end up in management or venture capital.

Same issues, same dynamic, different context.

The difference is authoritarians on the right are more likely to use physical violence. "Cultural" authoritarians are more likely to use social exclusion - brigading on social media, getting people fired, and so on.

The key point is that the presenting issue is irrelevant. The social dynamic and mode of relationship - angry tribalism used to justify violence without any sense of context - is the real tell.
There are definitely two sides to your story then :) Not necessarily to the top comments I have read. It might be a more important story though.
"My own app store. Unauditable binary blobs being downloaded by lazy devops."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cdEFF-ttLw
I think the title is missing a colon; for grammar reasons, it strongly seems that "The Experiments …" is the subtitle.
Is "editing things" (i.e. data) not central in the majority of apps?